Interview recorded by Herman Peters OFM for his thesis “Enkele hoofdstukken uit het sociaal-religieuze leven van een Dani-groep” published Dekker en van de Vegt, Utrecht, 1965. The interview was recorded in 1963-1964 in the Baliem Valley in West Papua. The interview is in the local language and the subject is on Wam Silo Pin. In the thesis he talks about Wam Silo Hin or the ban on slaughtering of pigs. See p 117. Wam is a pig, silo is a prohibition sign and hin is to place or put. On the side A is a mention of the American anthropologist Karl Heider who was doing research at the same time in the Baliem valley among the Wilil-Heiman. In the background one can hear sounds of the environment.
The thesis has also been published in English with the title: "Some observations of the social and religious life of a Dani-group", Jayapura Lembaga Anthropologi Univ. Cenderawasih, 1975.
The tape is part of the audio collection of the foundation PACE Papua Cultural Inheritance. For more information or any messages or correspondence contact huublems81@gmail.com or srgales@ziggo.nl.
On the cover is also a reference to probably the typed-out interview as the scripta of Herman Peters OFM page 7c to 6c. Until now the scripta have not been located.

Side A is 34’35 and Side B is 34’35

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